Google Wave: Developers paddle in

One developer: Using Wave suddenly makes Chrome and Chrome OS make a whole lot of sense.

ByAndrew HeiningJuly 21, 2009

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The ultimate sin of tech writing is beginning a post on a Web topic with "surf's up," hang ten," or some other tired, they-were-saying-this-in-1997-and-it-was-cheesy-then phrase. But here goes: "We're waxin' down our surfboards, we can't wait till ... September." Sorry.

Word from the Interwebs is that Google has opened its ambitious Wave service to more developers – up to 26,000 over the next month, according to TechCrunch – and they're beginning to voice their opinions. The public will begin to be invited in September, when 100,000 invites will go out to those who've opted-in.

SolidState Group's Ben Rometsch posted one the first and most comprehensive looks at what using the system is like. And even in it's bug-riddled state – every half hour or so a large javascript error banner pops up, and the only way to fix it is to restart everything – he remarks that "using it suddenly makes Chrome and Chrome OS make a whole lot of sense."